282 Epidemics. 



civilized customs, and such as imply much knowledge and 

 science, even still exist to mark that once a people of a 

 superior position to those who now inhabit Western Africa 

 lived on that continent. 



Where went the Carthaginians, who in the days of 

 Procopius were in a state of half-nudity, and occupying the 

 confines of the old Carthaginian territory, when the 

 conquering Saracens ran as swift spoilers through North 

 Africa ? One thing we know, namely, that the Vandals 

 escaped to the mountains of Morocco ; but where went 

 these half-savage and enduring Carthaginians ? Did any 

 of them form into caravansiers, and, aided by camels, cross 

 the Great Sahara and spread along the West Coast of 

 Africa, and so relics of old customs pertaining to higher 

 civilization found their way to Western and Central Africa ? 

 Such an origin is barely possible. 



Leaving Africa, we get to the widespread, social, self- 

 complaisant Asiatic, whose passive obedience and content- 

 ment have suffered a very material change by the blood of 

 the restless and warlike Saracen. And now that she is 

 pressed on the north by Russia, and on the south by Great 

 Britain, and the stay of her contentment, her idolatry, is 

 fast yielding to the ingress of Bible knowledge without 

 much Christian life, but with an intense interest to dive into 

 the secret of European success and greatness Asia on every 

 side is adopting the principles of combination, in little and 

 great affairs, to carry out the local schemes of any who are 

 anxious to promote them. 



Thus, it may be said, throughout the four great Continents 

 and Australia, that the generalizing of association in little 

 and great matters is gradually being stamped upon the 

 present anthropological era. What its ending may be, or 

 whether, as in the history of empires, about midway 

 between it shall be on the wane, or give place to something 



